Women’s Basketball’s Booker named finalist for Honda Award
Sophomore Madison Booker is one of four finalists for the Honda Sport Award for Women’s Basketball
AUSTIN, Texas — University of Texas women’s basketball sophomore Madison Booker is a finalist for the Honda Award for women’s basketball, The Collegiate Women’s Sports Awards announced today.
The Honda Sport Award has been presented annually by the CWSA for the past 49 years, recognizing the top women athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports and symbolizing “the best of the best in collegiate athletics.” The recipient of the sport award will become a finalist for the prestigious Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the 2025 Honda Cup, which will be presented during the live broadcast of the Collegiate Women Sports Awards Presented by Honda on June 30, at 7 pm ET, on CBS Sports Network.
The basketball finalists were chosen by a panel of experts and coaches from the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA). The Honda Sport award winner for basketball will be announced later this week after voting by administrators from over 1,000 NCAA member schools. Each NCAA member institution has a vote.
Booker, a native of Ridgeland, Miss., earned back-to-back WBCA First Team All-America honors and was a 2025 finalist for both the Wade Trophy and Wooden Award. She was named Conference Player of the Year in both the Big 12 and SEC and helped lead Texas to the 2025 NCAA Final Four. A two-time Miller Small Forward of the Year, Booker averaged 16.3 points, 6.6 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game this season.
Booker scored 20 or more points in 14 games this season and has scored in double figures in 32 games. As an incredibly efficient player, Booker shot 46.4 percent from the field on the season, 40.3 percent from 3-point range and 82.8 percent from the free-throw line. In an eight-game stretch against ranked opponents, including five wins against top-10 teams, Booker averaged 20.5 points per game and 7.6 rebounds per game while shooting 45 percent from the field and 85 percent from the free-throw line.
Paige Bueckers of the University of Connecticut, Notre Dame University’s Hannah Hildago and JuJu Watkins from the University of Southern California are finalists as well. .
